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17 June 2024
Geoffrey Hinton at AI for Good Summit: Balancing AI’s Transformative Potential with Ethical Concerns
At the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, one of the most highly anticipated sessions featured Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneering figure in the field of AI, interviewed by Nicholas Thompson, CEO of the Atlantic.
22 January 2024
The 2024 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos event marked a significant milestone in the AI for Good movement, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) was top of mind and top of the programme.
5 January 2023
Calling students (past and present), professors and educators to take part in this online survey to help develop an inventory of artificial intelligence (AI) ethics education in University Curricula, with a specific focus on trustworthy AI, ethics, and responsible technology use.
13 December 2022
The need to solve complex technical problems with joint action has long been a challenge for humans. As we enter an age where we can programme a large set or a group of robots to coordinate their actions for good, there opens up a world of possibilities for the future of robotics and humans.
20 June 2022
Together, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital innovation have the incredible opportunity to create long-term improvements to lives on a global scale, especially young people who will inevitably acquire these innovations and create new ones.
27 May 2022
From imagining possible digital futures to building and designing solutions for today, the Generation Connect conference is ITU’s largest gathering of youth to spur digital innovation.
18 May 2022
As AI technology pushes past limits in new real-world applications, regulators, investors, and the public are pushing back, asking what kind of relationship we ultimately want with AI and how to guarantee its responsible use.
28 March 2022
Women remain underrepresented at the top. Let’s do something to change that. Though the leadership pipeline of women has grown in a variety of professional, managerial and SVP roles, the newest IBM research warns that many are still not breaking into the C-suite or executive board.
22 February 2022
In the 1960s, emerging research on the effects of poverty and its impact on education came to light.
10 November 2021
As a United Nations agency with a specialized focus on digital technologies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) strives to align new and emerging tech with global sustainable development goals.
15 September 2021
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recently connected with pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) expert Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China, CEO of Sinovation Ventures, and co-author of the forthcoming book “AI 2041: Ten visions for our future."
28 April 2021
As artificial systems (AI) get increasingly complex, they are being used to make forecasts – or rather generate predictive model results – in more and more areas of our lives.
28 April 2021
Cybersecurity failure could be among the greatest challenges confronting the world in the next decade, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2021.
25 February 2021
In a digital world overloaded with content and short on resources, reaching and engaging new audiences has been a persistent challenge for creative industries. Some top media players have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) for a possible solution.
29 September 2020
At some stage we should expect the machines to take control - at least, that is what Alan Turing predicted for the future of machine learning in 1951.
6 May 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a bias problem. Actually, AI has many well-documented bias problems. Chief among these, arguably, is gender bias.
8 July 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to improve people’s lives worldwide and accelerate progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
6 May 2019
Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) capture the narrative of a global population on a controversial topic?
24 April 2019
Online advertising is often viewed as a kind of “necessary evil” to pay for free services such as Google and Facebook; the Faustian bargain at the heart of the “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” wisdom.
17 April 2019
The potential value from artificial intelligence (AI) is enormous: some $16 trillion by 2030, according to a PwC study. But what are the costs of AI when not done properly — and what are some of the risks?
17 April 2019
Just last week, the European Union published its Guidelines for Trustworthy AI.
25 March 2019
Some futurists fear Artificial Intelligence (AI), perhaps understandably. After all, AI appears in all kinds of menacing ways in popular culture, from the Terminator movie dynasty to homicidal HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
2 August 2018
Jack Aldane spoke to Jonathan Reichental, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Palo Alto to hear what it’s like to run the digital operations of the city that gave birth to Silicon Valley.
24 July 2018
There is incredible potential for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help the world achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)s. But how successful these efforts will be will depend on how regulators and policymakers address questions of governance.
25 May 2018
As momentum to build new ‘AI for Good’ projects emerges from last week’s AI for Good Global Summit, experts and leaders are recognizing the need to share resources to help such projects achieve significant scale.
22 May 2018
Why is trust in artificial intelligence (AI) important? Imagine an app that could enable farmers to achieve the most efficient use of water possible, but farmers don’t use the app. It could save money and water, but they don’t use it because they are not familiar with the app’s developer or how the app will use their data.
22 May 2018
“Health and [artificial intelligence] are natural companions, a very exciting convergence. The health sector is in many countries the largest economic sector or the fastest growing,” says Marcel Salathé of the Swiss technological institute, EPFL, and co-lead of the ‘Breakthrough team’ on AI and healthcare at the 2nd AI for Good Global Summit.
17 May 2018
It’s not just about whether or not artificial intelligence (AI) can do good, it’s about the sort of life you want to live and how AI can help accomplish that.
16 May 2018
If humans are going to build something that’s potentially more intelligent and more powerful than themselves, knowing how to control it is of the utmost importance.
16 May 2018
What follows is an abridged version of Aimee van Wynsberghe’s talk on “ethics as a driver for innovation in robotics & AI” at the AI for Good Global Summit. Ms. van Wynsberghe is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics.
15 May 2018
“AI [Artificial Intelligence] is likely to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity.” This is a statement made by a hero of mine – the late, great Stephen Hawking a couple of years ago at the opening of the Centre for the Future of Intelligence in Cambridge.
8 December 2017
Security and privacy by design, open APIs, network virtualization, identity and authorization, analytics and accessibility have been identified by industry leaders as core principles to guide ITU standardization work towards 2020.
13 November 2017
As intelligent systems increasingly make decisions that directly affect society, perhaps the most important upcoming research direction in AI is to rethink the ethical and societal implications of their actions.
